Hello,

I am part of a team that is trying to build a drone. My job is to handle object detection, so I need to find a camera, but I don't know much about cameras. Here are some background

• The drone needs to be able to see an 8-inch target on the ground and identify its shape, color, and some other things.
• It'll between 80 and 200 feet off the ground.
• it would be moving around 30mph.
• Our budget is $100-150 for the camera
• We can attach the camera either to a raspberry pi, jetson nano, or mac mini m2 (so USB or CSI would work)

So the challenge is that the drone needs to be able to see the object from a long distance, and also not blur the image too much from how fast it is moving.

We've tested an 8MP camera 80ft off the ground, but there simply aren't enough pixels to see the targets well. It's possible that our testing method wasn't good; these pictures are from a DJI Inspire taking video at 30FPS while moving. Here are some images: https://imgur.com/a/72lLKgK

From this test, I believe we need either a higher resolution camera or a lens and computer-controlled zoom. One option I've looked at is the Arducam 64MP hawkeye camera, but I'm not sure what its shutter speed is, which could change how blurry the image is. I've also seen some things online about how higher resolution doesn't always mean more detail, and what I really need is detail. So this arducam camera might not provide the detail I need, even though it has a high resolution. I don't know enough about cameras to know for sure.

Would the arducam 64MP camera work for this use case? Is there some other camera that could do the trick (high shutter speed and either high resolution or zoom tilt)? Is trying to get a camera like this for under $150 futile? Thanks.